.io going the way of the dodo?
Bookmarked The Disappearance of an Internet Domain.
The IANA may fudge its own rules and allow .io to continue to exist. Money talks, and there is a lot of it tied up in .io domains. However, the history of the USSR and Yugoslavia still looms large, and the IANA may feel that playing fast and loose with top-level domains will only come back to haunt it.
Hot take: Too much money in .io domains already. They will settle on some half-assed compromise that will only serve to make .io domains somewhat exclusive.
Nevertheless, an interesting test of integrity for IANA.